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Prime Healthcare has reached a deal to buy Ascension’s hospitals in Illinois. Ascension has been selling some facilities as it looks to improve its financial position.

Looking to cut costs, the Norman Regional Health System is consolidating two hospitals. Its longtime hospital in downtown Norman will shift to urgent care.

The shortage of these critical professionals is often overlooked, but it can be addressed.

Many providers are seeing better operating margins than a year ago, but some are facing significant difficulties.

The first half of the year has seen a number of intriguing deals. Some larger systems are doing better, and some smaller hospitals are struggling and seeking partners.

U.S. News & World Report has released its top hospitals for 2024-25, and the methodology includes a couple of notable changes.

The rankings gain attention from consumers and are used extensively by hospitals in marketing campaigns.

Sanford Health and Marshfield Clinic Health System said they have signed a non-binding agreement. Both systems explored mergers with different partners recently.

Health systems and physicians criticized proposed payments for 2025 as inadequate. Planned cuts in payments to doctors were described as ‘death by a thousand cuts.’

It took some time, but Liberty Hospital has joined the University of Kansas Health System.

Major breaches of private data show that some organizations are faltering on fundamental steps to protect their systems, says Wes Wright of Ordr Inc.

WellSpan Health has welcomed Evangelical Community Hospital into the organization.

WellSpan Health CEO Roxanna Gapstur says women shouldn’t hold themselves back from challenging positions.

The state’s attorney general brokered an agreement with UCSF Health on its acquisition of two hospitals from CommonSpirit Health. UCSF Health will invest $430M in capital improvements.

Catholic Medical Center has signed a purchase agreement with HCA Healthcare. The New Hampshire hospital has been struggling financially.

The Federal Trade Commission made its first comments after Novant Health dropped plans to buy two hospitals from Community Health Systems. Regulators have spurred several hospitals to abandon planned mergers.

Lawmakers are pushing legislation that would impose new criteria to participate in a program allowing hospitals to buy medications at lower prices.

Atlantic Health System and Saint Peter’s Healthcare System approved the pact, which comes months after announcing their intention to consolidate.

President Biden and Donald Trump met onstage for the first time, and clashed on abortion rights and drug prices.

The UAB Health System has reached a deal to take full ownership of Ascension St. Vincent’s Health System in Alabama.

The organization, founded by Kaiser Permanente, is moving to buy Cone Health. Risant recently finalized its acquisition of Geisinger.

A group of lawmakers are pushing a measure to require faster approval from insurers. Healthcare organizations are imploring Congress to approve the legislation.

Rhode Island officials have given conditional approval of the sale of Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, provided some key provisions are met.

Lifespan and Brown University have finalized plans for a closer relationship, and Lifespan will soon become Brown University Health.

Novant Health has abandoned its planned purchase of two facilities after the Federal Trade Commission secured an injunction delaying the deal.